Seriously Monogamous?

topic posted Mon, February 19, 2007 - 8:14 PM by  Aryn
Is anyone here strictly monogamous? By that, I mean that you don't have play mates, and that you have one romantic partner.

It would be nice to know that I'm not alone.:)
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Aryn
California
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Tue, February 20, 2007 - 12:37 AM
    I don't have any romantic partners at the moment, does that count?

    But to answer your question, when I am in a relationship, yes, that is the default.
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Tue, February 20, 2007 - 6:02 AM
    I fall into that catagory. I'm wired for strict 1:1. The only time I'm not in a 1:1 relationship is if I'm being cheated on....and that is not consensual and not ok with me.
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Tue, February 20, 2007 - 6:03 AM
      However, if i'm single and just "dating", I can and will date multiple people. The 1:1 comes in when it becomes a "relationship".
      • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

        Tue, February 20, 2007 - 8:45 AM
        yep. i've tried the other way but it always leeds to truble and jelusy.

        i am also wired to be in a relation ship with a couple , but only if the social dinamic alows me to treat them as a single partner, ... sort of a loop hole i've stumbled across before. but it's rare, like wining the lotery, the couple has to be soulmates who are like tow halfs of the same person, and even then you still have to be just perfectly matched to them bothe seperatly and together. ... i think it's becals my younger brothers wer twins and that alowed me to develop the ability to cumfortubly interact with a gastalt personality ... like i said rare loop hole.
        • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

          Tue, February 20, 2007 - 10:07 AM
          I'm probably the most monogamous person on this tribe. Not bragging, not saying that my views are better. Most people say that they're in fact a little nuts.
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Tue, February 20, 2007 - 10:12 AM
    Oh yes...
    I am *shock and horror on tribe* married with 2 kids.
    Before getting married, I was always mono. I tried a couple times to get into open dating and relationships, but it never worked for me. i am so wired to be mono it's hard for me to emotionally comprehend poly. While I can intellectualize it, and understand to some degree, i know I could never personally be poly. If I am in love with my partner, I feel no sexual "zing" towards anyone else. I may appreciate someone who looks good, male or female, but only my partner can make me feel juicy. My emotional connection is as important as a physical connection and seriously one emotional attachment seems to be enough for me and then some.
    So you are no way alone...
    My husband and I like to play but not with others (though granted it's harder to have as much playtime since the kids have come along...but we manage...locked doors do wonders)
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Tue, February 20, 2007 - 5:19 PM
      Oooh, I can relate to this, very much so. Not being married with two kids, but how you describe your situation.
      • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

        Tue, February 20, 2007 - 8:47 PM
        Sixteen years going strong, lovelife with much zizzle still. We start our 17th yr in April. We meet in the Anazazi dwellings in Chaco cyn New Mexico, he rolled his truck while he was driving in front of me and I rescued him. He is a dear one, a loving soul and very much centered and spiritual in a way where it feels good and not forced. A quiet one, a kind one. I am the hyper, love to go out and be with the girls and he stays home, now going out with the girls is once every 3 to 4 months, tee-hee. We have one daughter, 10 yrs old and she is a blessing and joy, we have so much fun with her, she is such a joy...but I love my husband, we have had rough times but the rough rarly show now, and the good is just being together, sharing and loving and doing the best we can for our daughter, life is to precious to sweat the small stuff, you just never know what can happen, gratefulness and appreciation and respect is there in our hearts and our home...peace...and always lovelight...lakotawolf
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Thu, February 22, 2007 - 2:57 PM

      > I am *shock and horror on tribe* married with 2 kids.

      <heh>
      Married+3kids, myself; you've neither shocked nor horrified me (can't speak for others' reactions to our disclosure, of course... ).


      > While I can intellectualize it, and understand to some degree, i know I could never personally be poly

      It actually took a close approach to poly, having to look at the real possibility that I might become involved with two women, and what that would mean... before I realized it was just not viable (for me). I find it hard to find enough time for ONE romantic/erotic partner in my life... if I had two (or more! <shudder>), I'd never be able to give enough -- or get enough from! -- either of them.


      - Steve
      • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

        Fri, February 23, 2007 - 10:48 AM
        ya i feel you on that.

        i'm a quality over quantity guy when it comes to sex and realaionships and romance.

        but if you can magage both quality and quantity, then thats prety awsome, i sort of envy peaple who's brains/harts are built that way and who's lives are structured to suport that. :)
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    Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Thu, February 22, 2007 - 10:28 AM
    I am strictly monagomous
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Fri, February 23, 2007 - 1:12 PM
      Hi everyone! >waves<

      I'm new here, and 100% monogamous too. Me and my man have been just us two for (oh, my!) fifteen years, and he still makes me swoon. I love it, love him, and wouldn't want it any other way.

      I'm really glad to be here. Have a nice weekend folks.
      • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

        Fri, February 23, 2007 - 2:19 PM
        I am 100% pure monogomous too
        I don't have a long term relationship to prove it....
        but suffice to say
        I am completely a one man kind of woman
        I don't even seem to be able to casually date 2 guys at the same time
        and having sex with more than one would just fuck with my head/heart/body/energy field too much
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Mon, February 26, 2007 - 6:55 AM
    I understand poly, I am dating someone who is poly... but I don't think I would ever try it out. I have never felt a crush on someone when I was dating someone else. If that happened it usually meant that I was not longer "into" the original partner. I think I'm wired monogamous, and I'm just trying to get into a comfort zone so my partner can have relationships and not make me feel terrible about it. Then again, who knows it might change, but for the moment this is where I feel the most at ease! So yes, I too have one romantic partner.
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Tue, October 16, 2007 - 6:01 AM
      oh god good luck i am currently with a girlfriend who started off poly while with me but has since stopped, hopefully not because i was being a pain, but i aint complainin....
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Mon, February 26, 2007 - 9:24 AM
    I am single at the moment, but when I am in a relationship, I believe in staying true to my partner. Given the right match, the idea of playing with others does not even come up. I do teach classes on needle play, but that is a teaching venue not a play one.

    des
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Sun, August 19, 2007 - 7:57 PM
    Been in four long-term relationships and one sporty "test-drive" within the parking lot (not quite a spin around the block), all one on one and highly constructive.
    A loving threesome seems remotely possible to me and some massage should be open season for everyone of age I do believe, but realistically, I forsee myself with one sweetie at a time in this life.
    A good combo can be deliciously playful, cozy, comforting, creative, healthy, loving, adventurous, supportive, surprising, sexy, & fun!
    Thanks Aryn for sticking your neck out by starting this discussion.
    Hug.
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Sun, August 19, 2007 - 9:49 PM
    I tend to be fairly monogamous myself despite plenty of opportunities to do otherwise. I have done the poly thing with a woman who was married, her sitting at my feet, her husband and I sharing the couch drinking beers. Interesting, got the T shirt but just not for me. Due to our long distance relationship I would like to find someone local on a serious but casual note but to end when we marry sometime in the next year.

    That said, my dear friends Master Rick and slave Tina who just won the NW Master/slave title are VERY strictly monogamous and loving every minute of it..

    I think it is more common than we believe but they tend to couple up and disapear into the woodwork if they are happy with each other whearas the poly people tend to hang around where there are other poly people and so the scene self selects for poly.
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Mon, August 20, 2007 - 2:09 PM
      "I think it is more common than we believe but they tend to couple up and disapear into the woodwork if they are happy with each other whearas the poly people tend to hang around where there are other poly people and so the scene self selects for poly."


      wow! what a refreshing point I hadn't thought about.
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Tue, August 21, 2007 - 5:35 PM
    My default has always been monogamous. I can be with more than one person, but it's not something I need or really even want. Finding someone I want to be with, who wants to be with me is much more difficult. Thus I go through years of not being with anyone.
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Sun, October 7, 2007 - 7:47 PM
    I am, it's just me and my husband, and has been since the day we met. I was a lot more poly inclined before I met him, but it was a fear of commitment on my part after a marriage from hell in my teens, and meeting the right person for me altered how I look at life. No playmates of any kind, all the romantic needs are catered to by our own creativity and each other. : )
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Mon, October 8, 2007 - 10:30 PM
    I experimented with poly once that was enough. I found my self not really being able to get connected to either of the women and it soon went all to hell. The emotional aspect means a lot to me when it comes to sex, relationships, even just dating.

    I'm single right now but I would rather be single then not be with someone who I felt there was a mutual connection with, and I guess I dont understand how anyone can fairly divide their emotions between two people.
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Tue, October 9, 2007 - 11:59 AM
      I also considered a poly relationship ...and I couldn't do it. I felt like I was secondary...and I was...because he had a primary lover already. I'm not a secondary...i'm a primary and preferably the only one. Emotionally I just can't take it, and i'm ok with that :)

      "Love can not survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts."
      -Mary O'Hara (1946)


      Jeremy
      >> ...I dont understand how anyone can fairly divide their emotions between two people <<

      me either...i'm a very emotional person...and when I love someone it's without abandon...full on passion. I can't divide that up...are you kidding...it would be like trying to cut titanium with a rubber chicken.
      • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

        Tue, October 16, 2007 - 5:50 AM
        1:1 wired, i have had the opertunity to share a girfriend of my girlfriends but i guess i felt that the sexuality became kind of diluted when it was not someone i cared deeply about, hey maybe i am possesive and cant share but thats the way of it, like someone said on this thread, maybe next lifetime!......oh and my girfriend has become monogomous since being with me so maybe it is contageous or somethng?
        • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

          Tue, October 16, 2007 - 5:52 AM
          oh and that is very interesting the primary secondary stuff eoss sound s like politically correct ways to say posessive non possesive, lol just half joling je je je
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Sun, October 28, 2007 - 3:11 PM
    Yes.

    I was strictly mono when I was married (she went poly) and now I have chosen not to have any playmates/Friends with benefits, while I heal, because that's just f.... confusing.

    When I start to date again, I want to abstain from sex untill we have agreed on being together in a comitted, long-term relationship (how ever long it taks to determin that!).

    Many blessings.

    Tuan
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Tue, December 4, 2007 - 1:44 PM
    I am completely and totaly monogamous!

    Quite happy with hubby. No playmates of any sort!

    I dont even really look that often... so yah... =)

    you arent alone!
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Wed, December 5, 2007 - 2:52 PM
      I don't know where I fit in. I do have occasional "play" partners, but I don't have sex with them, just me giving spankings or other non-sexual kink. I have been with my male partner for 17 years and have not had sex with anyone else in that time, nor have I wanted to. He "thinks" he is poly, but he has been chaste and has only had sex with me in all that time.
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Wed, January 16, 2008 - 7:22 PM
    When I am dating somebody...I am completely monogamous...no play mates or anything. All I need is one person. =)

    Now if only I can find somebody special to date who feels the same way... hmmm.

    :)

    Marisa~
  • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

    Sat, April 26, 2008 - 10:33 PM
    I am finding I am strictly monogamous. Don't feel like the lone stranger :-)
    • Re: Seriously Monogamous?

      Fri, June 13, 2008 - 6:52 PM
      I've been poly my whole life (since I was 14), and I'm just entering into the monogamy realm. I used to love poly, particularly when I was very young and felt I was too immature for/ not looking for a relationship. I'm discovering slowly that no matter how hashed through things seem to be, poly has inevitably created problems either for me or my partners. Now I'm feeling so happy in my relationship and so relaxed and amazed that I
      a) don't have to worry about STDs
      b) don't have to constantly discuss boundaries.
      It's awesome!
      I am still trying to figure some things out.....like how do people deal with crushes?
      I do feel a bit stunted in my ability to be in relationships, since I spent so much time just running from one person to the next.

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